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354 XI ELEMENTARY SPECTRAL THEORY
(f ) For X = ln , a necessary and sufficient condition for the Sturm-Liouville
problem to have a solution is that \ f(t)cpn(t) dt = 0. Then, for any solution w, cn = (w | q>n) is arbitrary, and for m ^ n, cm is given by the same formula as in (e).
The homogeneous Sturm-Liouville problem cannot have two linearly
independent solutions, otherwise it would have solutions y for which y(d) and y'(d) are arbitrary, which is absurd; this proves (b). The fact that all eigenvalues Aw are real follows from (1 1 .7.7) and (1 1 .5.7) ; moreover it follows from (11 .7.4) that at most finitely many ln are negative. By Mercer's theorem ((11.6.7) and (11.6.8)), we have for the Green function
(11.7.10.1) K(*,x) = £|<pn(0<P,,(x)
n An
the series being absolutely and uniformly convergent in I x I (it is supposed,
as we may, that 0 is not one of the !). We observe that (d) follows from (11.6.3) and (11.7.8) when the additional assumption is made on w that M/ is continuous in I. To prove (d) in general, let ti (1 < i < m) be the points of 1 where wf has a discontinuity, and let a,- = w'(^-i-) w'(fj ). Then the
m
function v = w + £ aiKf. satisfies all the conditions of (d) and in addition
i=l
has a continuous derivative, by (11.7.6). Using (11.7.10.1) we conclude the
proof of (d). From the fact that the identity mapping of E = ^c(I) ^nto Gr is continuous, it follows that for the functions w satisfying the conditions of (d), we can also write w = £ cn q>n , the sequence being convergent in the
n
prehilbert space G. To prove (c) it will then be enough to show that the set P
of these functions w is dense in G. Now, for any function M e G, consider the continuous function wm equal to u in |
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to a linear function x -» ax + /? satisfying the first (resp. second) boundary
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and to a linear function in each of the intervals
+ -L,fl+il, L_!,6_-
2m m L ^ 2m |
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